The Masque of the Red Death
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The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Masque of the Red Death canonical | 11 |
| Masque of the Red Death | 2 |
| The Masque of the Red Death (1842) | 2 |
| Red Death | 1 |
| The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film) | 1 |
| the Red Death | 1 |
| the Red Death figure | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T295532 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Masque of the Red Death Context triple: [Edgar Allan Poe, notableWork, The Masque of the Red Death]
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A.
The Fall of the House of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
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B.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
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C.
The Raven
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe, renowned for its melancholic atmosphere, musical language, and exploration of grief and madness as a mysterious raven visits a grieving man.
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D.
The Spectre Bridegroom
The Spectre Bridegroom is a short Gothic-humor tale by Washington Irving about a mysterious, seemingly supernatural bridegroom whose true identity is revealed in a comic twist.
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E.
Strange Meeting
"Strange Meeting" is a renowned anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen that depicts a surreal encounter between two dead soldiers, powerfully conveying the futility and horror of war.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Masque of the Red Death Target entity description: The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
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A.
The Fall of the House of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
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B.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
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C.
The Raven
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe, renowned for its melancholic atmosphere, musical language, and exploration of grief and madness as a mysterious raven visits a grieving man.
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D.
The Spectre Bridegroom
The Spectre Bridegroom is a short Gothic-humor tale by Washington Irving about a mysterious, seemingly supernatural bridegroom whose true identity is revealed in a comic twist.
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E.
Strange Meeting
"Strange Meeting" is a renowned anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen that depicts a surreal encounter between two dead soldiers, powerfully conveying the futility and horror of war.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gothic fiction work
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allegory ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The Masque of the Red Death
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)
The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film) ⓘ various stage adaptations ⓘ |
| author | Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| centralCharacter | Prince Prospero ⓘ |
| centralMotif |
Red Death plague
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clock ⓘ masquerade ball ⓘ seven colored rooms ⓘ |
| climax | revelation of the Red Death at the masquerade ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| ending | death of all revelers ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Graham's Magazine ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
ⓘ
allegorical fiction ⓘ horror fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Prince Prospero
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nobles at the abbey ⓘ The Masque of the Red Death self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
the Red Death figure
|
| includedIn | collections of Edgar Allan Poe's tales ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| literarySubgenre |
Gothic literature
ⓘ
surface form:
Dark Romanticism
|
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeTimeSpan | several months of the plague ⓘ |
| notableLine | "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all." ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPublication | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1842 ⓘ |
| setting |
Prince Prospero's abbey
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medieval-like unspecified country ⓘ |
| structure | single continuous narrative ⓘ |
| symbol |
The Masque of the Red Death
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Red Death
ebony clock ⓘ masked figure ⓘ seven rooms ⓘ |
| theme |
decadence and corruption of the aristocracy
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futility of wealth against death ⓘ human denial of death ⓘ inevitability of death ⓘ isolation and escapism ⓘ mortality ⓘ |
| tone |
foreboding
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macabre ⓘ |
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Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Red Death
this entity surface form:
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)
this entity surface form:
the Red Death figure
subject surface form:
Edgar Allan Poe
this entity surface form:
the Red Death
this entity surface form:
The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
this entity surface form:
The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
subject surface form:
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)
this entity surface form:
Masque of the Red Death
this entity surface form:
Masque of the Red Death
subject surface form:
The Fall of the House of Usher (TV series)